At first, she was reluctant to join the site: “I was like, ‘Hey, I was pithy and witty before this came along.’” Soon, though, Wilson found a niche by not just tweeting her own bon mots, but also re-tweeting the witty commentary of others.“I wanted to draw more attention to other people’s things, to other people’s work, and to amplify their voices,” she says. ”In a series of tweets over the next few days, Wilson eventually revealed that she identifies as bisexual. It was overwhelming—Wilson wanted to come out, but not like this. Wilson went from being ostracized for her looks to someone whose sexuality was headline-worthy. She took a few days off from Twitter and stepped away from the Internet (but not before asking people on her Facebook page to tell her their embarrassing coming-out stories, just to make her feel better.) And, after a time, she came to terms with the fact that everything was all right.

The result is “I did want to set the record straight on what had happened to me,” she admits. She was supposed to transform effortlessly from adorable to pretty, mature, and confident. So she started losing parts to the girls, who even at the most vulnerable times in their lives, could be .“I was friends with girls like Hilary Duff and Lacey Chabert, and they were always incredibly beautiful, and I was like, ‘O. I don’t look like that, but I’ve got my own thing going on,’” Wilson says. Gradually, she realized she was interested in a lot of things besides acting anyway. Wilson writes about them at length in —and decades later, there’s a bit of lingering pain in her voice when she discusses her decision.

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